Out of faith rises love. No man can love God unless he believes that God loves Him. I, for my part, am old-fashioned and narrow enough not to believe that there is any deep, soul-cleansing of soul-satisfying love of God which is not the answer to the love that died on the cross. But you must believe that, and more than believe it; you must have trusted and cast yourselves on it, in the utter abandonment of self-distrust and Christ-confidence, before there will well up in your heart the answering love to God.
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